The Masked Shadows Desert Tortoise Growout Thread
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Anything yet?
You can try sprinkling flour over areas to see if he passes through.
I get the feeling you’ll find him just basking on a fence post one day soon.
You can try sprinkling flour over areas to see if he passes through.
I get the feeling you’ll find him just basking on a fence post one day soon.
Good news! The dog found him!
It seems he was just walking out of a bush to bask when the dog found him. He started to play bow and bark (as he is trained to) when he finds a tortoise. Sunny is perfectly fine, but a little on the skinny side right now. I found him about 20 feet from his cage in some kind of long tropical grass. It is very close to the tortoise enclosure, and as we know, he attacks tortoises, so he must’ve seen them and attacked, then got bored. So happy!
It seems he was just walking out of a bush to bask when the dog found him. He started to play bow and bark (as he is trained to) when he finds a tortoise. Sunny is perfectly fine, but a little on the skinny side right now. I found him about 20 feet from his cage in some kind of long tropical grass. It is very close to the tortoise enclosure, and as we know, he attacks tortoises, so he must’ve seen them and attacked, then got bored. So happy!
It’s kind of off because I absolutely ransacked the whole backyard, yet there he was. He must’ve gone to someone else’s yard and then came back.
So glad you found him!
My crestie got loose and I tore apart the house a dozen times. I had basically given up when she was found just walking along the floor at night 2 weeks later, like nothing happened.
My crestie got loose and I tore apart the house a dozen times. I had basically given up when she was found just walking along the floor at night 2 weeks later, like nothing happened.
Another year another hibernation. They went into their annual pre-hibernation check up, and they are healthy!
Had fun out in the garden today. They’re getting big! Approaching 5 years! Their new enclosure is about the size of the last one, but thinner. About 30 feet long and for about half the time it’s 4 feet wide and then it widens to around 10. One of the maine reasons we have a garden is because they eat so much veggies that we’ve had to get a couple bags for them to eat just for a week! They seem to fill up more with home-grown veggies, I don’t know why. They love hibiscus flowers. After they eat it they get a nice pink lipstick.
Sunny, the beardy, is about 9 years, still going strong. Loving life and especially loving snap peas!
Sunny, the beardy, is about 9 years, still going strong. Loving life and especially loving snap peas!
